Eh, my nieces are grown up at this point. The oldest just had her own child. I feel so old... lol

I had to stop reading about halfway through the article because it was making me very upset. My impression was that the conservatorship was to a degree planned in advance? Like, not long term planning, but more they saw an opening and thought about how to take advantage of it. And at every turn they did everything to…

I like to think I’m the latter, but I’m more likely the third category: the childless uncle nobody thinks about much.

You’ll have to define “steward of the world”, because anyone who pays any fucking attention at all to what the US has done to the world throughout it’s history would at least hesitate to make such a bold declaration.

lol

I’ve been an anarchist since high-school, although I was more of a “casual” anarchist up until the invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11. That’s what “radicalized” me. But I hated the flag and refused to say the pledge. What “turned” me was everything I had read and learned about the genocide against the native peoples…

Glorious. 

Well, it’s been a day and no such comments (here, anyways). Guess we all agree he was irredeemable scum, and the world is ever so incrementally better for him not being in it anymore.

The last part about the underpants gnomes is a great analogy. As far as “democracy” goes, though, they’ve never actually cared about that part. They only care about capitalism, so they’ve backed brutal right-wing dictatorships and instigated coups against democratically elected governments all over the world (mainly…

I thought there used to be a way. I would flag everything he posts with hate speech or spam or whatever.

Eh, to the extent that in the future, we still look at history through the lens of multimedia, his face is plastered all over footage from those wars.

That’s beautiful.

How dare you imply both sides commit war crimes and associated atrocities! (j/k)

Unfortunately he already is. Shouldn’t surprise, though, for reasons you stated.

If by “free market” you mean “send in paramilitary ‘contractors’ to clean up, and charge the Iraqi people for the mess the US created”, then sure.

I know many people forgot, and many more probably never even knew, but I will never forget reading the daily horrors committed in Afghanistan by the US military. We had B52s carpet bombing the countryside (as if that was going to smoke out Bin Laden somehow? and was he even there at that point?). I’m sure the Afghani…

100 feet? You sure he’d make it that far?

Their “support” of her has nothing whatsoever to do with her bodily autonomy, and everything to do with her right to access the money she made. That’s the only reason a republican would weigh in on this (aside from an excuse to grab airtime, as goddessoftransitory pointed out). It’s always about money with them (and…

I think cults prey on basic human weaknesses - fault lines that exist in the human psyche in general, not just the “damaged” ones. For example, everyone feels lonely sometimes, like nobody really understands who you are inside. Cults exploit that. You might come from a happy family, you could be in a healthy…

Thank you. This is good info, and makes more sense of my time working in behavioral health.